For almost one in every five schools in Pennsylvania, scores that the state Department of Education were supposed to release today under the state's new school evaluation system were not released.

Building-level academic scores under the state's new Pennsylvania School Performance Profiles were not released today for more than 600 of Pennsylvania's roughly 3,200 schools because of reported errors in those schools' Keystone Exams student growth measurements, the department said.

The scores were supposed to be released in the morning but were delayed until late in the afternoon, when the state released the incomplete list. The outstanding scores will be reported in mid-December, the state said.

Easton Superintendent John Reinhart expected Easton’s scores to be released and sent out a news release Thursday chiding the state for putting out inaccurate and unfair scores. He previously predicted that teacher reporting requirements would be too complicated and time consuming.

Bethlehem Superintendent Joseph Roy said he believes the decision was made just today not to release some of the scores -- he had expected Liberty’s to be released but they were not.

The new Pennsylvania School Performance Profiles have replaced the former state school report cards based on federal No Child Left Behind standards. Their building-level academic scores are based on a 0-100 scale while the previous report cards either ranked a school proficient or not.

The state said the new profiles for the first time provide residents with a “comprehensive, straight-forward and user-friendly resource that will provide detailed information on the quality of public schools.”

Acting Secretary of Education Carolyn Dumaresq said today she considered a score of 70 as a benchmark of moving toward success.

“If, in fact, the data holds ... at this point, it appears that at least 72 percent of the school buildings in Pennsylvania have cleared that benchmark, which I think is phenomenal,” she said during a conference call.

Among Northampton County high schools with building-level academic scores, Bangor Area High School had a score of 67.9 and Northampton Area High School had a score of 70.1.

Many more middle than high schools in the county had scores, including Bangor (74.9), Easton 5-6 (65.3), Easton 7-8 (81.6), Northampton (77.6) and Wilson (82.7). All four of Bethlehem’s middle schools also had scores: Broughal (61.8), East Hills (83.3), Nitschmann (84.6) and Northeast (79.6).

Bethlehem’s Roy said he found little value in the overall scores because they combined so many factors based on vague calculations. The data he said he is paying the most attention to is the Pennsylvania Value Added Assessment System academic growth expectations that show how much a school is improving on the state tests.

While Broughal had an overall low score, its math growth expectation score is a 96 and its reading growth expectation score is an 87, Roy said.

“What’s a more successful school — a school with bad growth and high numbers … or a school that has moved kids ahead with difficult challenges?” he said. “For districts with a wide background of kids, we have to move them forward from where we got them.”

Reporter Precious Petty contributed to this story.

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Below is a list of Pennsylvania School Performance Profile building-level academic scores for middle and high schools in Northampton County. The scores are based out of 100 and those currently without scores are denoted by N/A.